A “Strikeforce: Miami” preliminary-card bout that was supposed to be streamed by EASportsMMA.com but slowed by a traffic surge to the Web site is now available on Strikeforce.com.

The fight can be watched in its entirety until this Sunday, Feb. 7.

Hieron vs. Riggs took place Jan. 30 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. But with a host of other bouts filling the night’s Showtime broadcast, the fight was bumped to the un-aired prelims.

However, with Hieron a featured fighter in the soon-to-be-released “EA Sports MMA” videogame title, EA Sports agreed to stream the fight. However, with an unexpected surge in traffic crushing the company’s Web servers, most viewers got either a choppy and delayed feed – or no feed at all.

After the show, Strikeforce officials told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) they planned to make the fight available online.

“We apologize for any technical issues that occurred during the live stream at EA sports MMA,” Strikeforce officials stated on the Web site. “Nonethless, we are happy to make the video available until Sunday.”

The decision to put Hieron on the prelims was especially surprising because he was expected to fight Nick Diaz for the welterweight title twice before. Hieron turned down a planned “Miami” bout with Marius Zaromskis in hopes of putting pressure on Diaz to the fight. Instead, Diaz vs. Zaromskis was slated for a championship main event, and Hieron was scheduled to fight fellow UFC vet Riggs.

Although this fight marked Hieron’s final bout on his contract, he needed a win to assure any future shot at Diaz if he does re-sign.

Go to Strikeforce.com to see if he got the win or if Riggs played the spoiler role.

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